On 02.07.20 17:53, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > It would be great if we could fairly reliably boot with a read-only > root file system, all the way to the graphical environment. Obviously, > such a machine will not be fully functional, but for users, debugging a > disk problem when they have the normal environment with windows, > tabbed terminals, graphical editors, and internet is vastly easier. > > It also creates an image of robustness. Imagine that instead of being > rudely dropped to a terminal prompt, the user is instead able to log in > as usual and see a popup like >> Your home directory is read-only. Do this and that. See https://...
That would be fantastic, and would be miles ahead from any UX I had on any computer, ever. > I hope we can all cooperate to make read-only boots nicely robust and > functional. Please play with this and report bugs. I'll try to solve any > that relate to systemd. The systemd version with udev.blockdev-read-only > is not released yet, but is available from koji ci builds [11]. Thanks for working on this, I will definitely give it a try myself. Christopher _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
